Eleanor Rosenberg

Eleanor Rosenberg (April 9, 1908 – June 13, 1998) was an American professor of English literature. She was on the faculty at Barnard College from 1951 to 1973, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957.

Early life and education Rosenberg was born in New York City, the daughter of Bernard Rosenberg and Helen L. Rosenberg. Her father was a dentist. She attended Hunter College High School, and graduated from Barnard College in 1929. Career Rosenberg began teaching at Barnard College as a visiting professor in 1951 , published her book on the first Earl of Leicester in 1955, achieved full professor status in 1959, and retired in 1973; she remained active in campus life as professor emeritus, and served on the Barnard Library committee in 1976. In 1973, she was presented with Barnard's Distinguished Alumna Award.

Rosenberg received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1957, for her studies concerning "literature on the New World, as known in Tudor England".

Publications "Giacopo Castelvetro: Italian Publisher in Elizabethan London and His Patrons" (1943) Leicester, Patron of Letters (1955) "Giacopo Castelvetro in Scandinavia" (1976) Personal life Rosenberg shared an apartment with Ruth J. Dean in retirement. She died in 1998, at the age of 90, in New York.